A History of the Boston City Hospital from Its Foundation Until 1904 (Classic Reprint)

This History covers forty years of The Boston City Hospital sexistence. It was thought wiser to compile it for that period rather than to wait fifty years, when some of the present editors might not be living. Already only two of the original members of the Hospital Staff, Drs. David W. Cheever and John G. Blake, remain. During these forty years the number of beds has increased fourfold, and the number of the staff in the same ratio. Many new departments have been created, and we have endeavored to do justice to them all. It is with mingled feelings of pride and regret that the editors complete this volume; the former sentiment inspired by what the Hospital has become and has accomplished; the latter that some of them can no longer take active part in its future progress and achievements. These forty years in surgery and in medicine have seen the discovery and the established use of the three marvels of A sepsis, the Toxines and the Roentgen Ray. The Editors.
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